Sayings That People Get Wrong

[Gwynedd Blue]

I'll start with 'early doors'. I am not 100% sure this is wrong, but it may have resulted from an ex footballer/presenter saying EARLY DOORS instead of EARLY DAYS.

Can you think of any?

[Harry Flashman]

I thought early doors originated from the pubs closing during the day and then reopening early evening?

[RichardM]

Early doors is an old saying http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2295032/Big-Ron-to o-late-for-early-doors.html
Escape goat is my favourite of the kind you are looking for

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Mute point
Ten items or less
Them things

[San Jose Blue]

Should of
Could of
Would of

I thought early doors originated from the pubs closing during the day and then reopening early evening?

Wiki says the same

[San Jose Blue]

I didn't do nothing (or nuffink, even!)

[San Jose Blue]

different to

[blueblade]

Mataland.

[Observer]

Cornelius will come good.

Carnation street....as my missus calls it,since she was a kid

[Colonel Cærdiffi]

You don't know what you've got till it's goat.

[ian gibson]

I heard it through the drainpipe, instead of grapevine.

[Gwynedd Blue]

I thought early doors originated from the pubs closing during the day and then reopening early evening?

Amazing - I didn't know that.

[The Alien]

It winds me up when people say "a 12 month". It's not a 12 month, it's 1 year.

[RichardM]

It winds me up when people say "a 12 month". It's not a 12 month, it's 1 year.

How many months are there in a year where you come from?

[Gwynedd Blue]

It winds me up when people say "a 12 month". It's not a 12 month, it's 1 year.

Sorry - but doesn't 12 months = 1 year; just as 3 feet = a yard? Aren't these people justified in using 12 month(s)? Just a thought like.

[The Alien]

It winds me up when people say "a 12 month". It's not a 12 month, it's 1 year.

How many months are there in a year where you come from?

12

[Gwynedd Blue]

Cornelius will come good.

Only if you change the spelling of the third word.

[The Alien]

It winds me up when people say "a 12 month". It's not a 12 month, it's 1 year.

Sorry - but doesn't 12 months = 1 year; just as 3 feet = a yard? Aren't these people justified in using 12 month(s)? Just a thought like.

You know what I meant smart arse.

[Gwynedd Blue]

Mute point

Ten items or less? You'll have to explain that one. Sorry.

[Gwynedd Blue]

It winds me up when people say "a 12 month". It's not a 12 month, it's 1 year.

Sorry - but doesn't 12 months = 1 year; just as 3 feet = a yard? Aren't these people justified in using 12 month(s)? Just a thought like.

You know what I meant smart arse.

How do you know that I have a smart arse?

[Observer]

Mute point

Ten items or less

A bakers dozen when the baker has a few fingers missing

[bobh]

Should of

Whereas the first person singular is the correct form.

[RichardM]

Mute point

Ten items or less

It should be ten items or fewer